Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential HarmsNew York TimesThe sugar industry funded animal research in the 1960s that looked into the effects of sugar consumption on cardiovascular health — and then buried the data when it suggested that sugar could be harmful, according to newly released historical documents.

Essentia fires about 50 workers over refusal to get flu shotsMinneapolis Star TribuneThe Duluth-based health system says many employees ultimately got vaccinations, and that patients will be safer. By Jeremy Olson Star Tribune. November 21, 2017 — 9:44pm. itemprop. Richard Sennott, Star Tribune file A labor union in the Duluth area is ...

Big Tobacco's anti-smoking ads begin after decade of delayABC NewsIn this Nov. 14, 2017 photo, Ellie Mixter-Keller poses for a photo in her home in Wauwatosa, Wis. Mixter-Keller, 62, says she knew the dangers of smoking. She smoked a pack a day for 30 years before quitting 12 years ago. Under a court order, the ...

Dr. Samadi: New guidelines mean 50% of people have hypertensionNew York Daily NewsThe change in high blood pressure guidelines mean the number of Americans under 45 who'll be diagnosed with hypertension will soar. (Getty Images/Fuse). BY Dr. David Samadi. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS CONTRIBUTOR. Monday, November 20, 2017, ...

US FDA approves first two-drug HIV regimen in win for GSKReuters(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first two-drug regimen to treat HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, aimed at lessening the side effect burden of current treatments that combine three or four medicines. The green light is ...